Sandy Hollow, New South Wales

Sandy Hollow is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia in Muswellbrook Shire.

The town is located on the Golden Highway in the far west of the Upper Hunter Valley, about 260 km north of Sydney.

It is located around halfway between Denman and Merriwa, 1 km west of the intersection of the Golden Highway and the Bylong Valley Way.

It also has a community hall, a small public school, sculpture surrounded coffee house and emporium selling gift ware.

Oil bearing shale was trucked from a mine at Baerami Creek to refining retorts at Sandy Hollow in the 1940s but was closed after WWII as uneconomical.

Entrance sign for the town of Sandy Hollow